Appreciating and Appraising

Curriculum details

Strand

Visual Arts (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Appreciating and Appraising (1.4)

Content standard

B4.1.4.7 - Demonstrate understanding of how to make informed decisions on displays, presentations, performances, recordings and/or reports based on established guide for judging artworks (the theme, subject matter, media, techniques, elements and principles of design, social, aesthetic, cultural and functional values) for correlation, correction and future modifications

Indicator

B4.1.4.7.2 - Analyse and appreciate own or others' visual artworks based on the developed guidelines and present own reports as feedback on artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments of some communities in Ghana

Suggested placement

Term 3, Week 9 (Week 33 of the year)

Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.

Curriculum reference

Creative Arts Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 57

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- display (real/photographs/video) selected works (own or that of others) that reflect the natural and manmade environment of some communities in Ghana;
- talk about the works dispassionately using the developed guidelines;
- use the outcome of the appreciation/appraisal to modify the product or to produce similar or different artwork.
- record/document the activity and share using a platform accepted social media by the class/group (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp).